How is Tom Sawyer introduced? What do we learn about him just in the initial scene?

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses

What can the reader infer about the fears and values of the ancient greeks based on this description of the cyclops’s island?

In describing jimmy wells as the truest, most loyal fellow, what tone is conveyed